The Quad Report: Instagram filters, biddies and 3 hilarious tweets

Welcome back to the Quad Report, a baller replay of important stories you may have missed this week while you were starting your new internship and hoping not to get death glared by your supervisor a la The Devil Wears Prada. Jeez, Miranda Priestly, take a freakin’ chill pill, I just got here!

1. Science has become so modernized that…

We’re spending serious moolah studying which Instagram filters get the most likes. Yes, a social media scientist (we live in an era where that’s an actual job … SMH) actually studied how you can get the most people to care about what you post on Instagram. #nofilter?

2. Colorblind schmolor-blind.

With the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision upon us, it’s no surprise that we really haven’t come as far as we’d like to believe. After all, the top five largest public universities in our great nation are still vast majority white.

3. First name Biddy. Last name Martin.

Amherst College president Biddy Martin spoke out about fraternities on campus this past week after the school banned all Greek life off campus after a ban in the 80’s shut down on-campus frats. Underground frats (sounds like a terrible rock band name) spoke out against the measures, claiming that they (like early 2000s emo boy bands) are entirely misunderstood.

Contemplative studies students at Brown meditate as part of first-person learning in Ashamu Dance Studio. (Matthew Sacchet)

4. Move over, English, there’s a new college major that wins “Least Number of Job Prospects”.

Brown University is leading the charge after creating a “contemplative studies” discipline. What does such a major entail, you ask? Aside from lots of meta mumbo jumbo about understanding the “human contemplative experience,” this seems like something straight off of that “Create Your Own College Major” whiteboard in the movie Accepted.

The 3 Best Tweets of the Week: Ruining movie titles

All of those really annoying action films are coming out over the next couple of weeks (We’re looking at you, Edge of Tomorrow). So in honor of wildly expensive special effects cinema, here are some great tweets from #addawordruinamovie.

The Quad Report is compiled each week by Lily Herman, a student at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, studying government and sociology. She is the co-founder of a college admissions and high school/college lifestyles organization called The Prospect, and her writing has also been featured on The Daily Muse, Forbes, Her Campus and The Huffington Post. You can find her on Twitter right here.

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